CBS News recently published an article about seeding the atmosphere with aerosols to reflect a portion of the sun’s rays away from earth as a viable method to cool the climate. This method is sometimes referred to as the albedo method. As noted in the article, it is controversial but has long been viewed as one of the most feasible and relatively inexpensive ways to turn down the Earth’s emissions-induced heat. The method has historical precedent from which to draw comparisons and conclusions about it’s impact. As recently as the 1990s, the Earth’s temperature was lowered for approximately two years as a result of sulfuric acid spewed high into the atmosphere by the Mt. Pinatubo volcano eruption.

An old white male conservative Senator explaining to a young Hispanic Congresswoman from a disadvantaged background the supposed difference between historic incidents of harsh treatment of refugees and the current actions on the border with the so-called Caravan was probably not a good look to begin with. But then the Auschwitz Memorial chimed in by doing some explaining of its own to the old Senator.Continue Reading Graham mansplains Ocasio-Cortez, then gets schooled by Auschwitz Memorial.